>>>>> "JP" == John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> Matt Sergeant wrote:
>>
>> I don't want to see Perl6 be so
>> fundamentally different to perl5 that I have to translate every single
>> script. I want some better stuff, but a new language is not what I'm
>> looking for.
JP> Well, I guess we all want something a little different.
JP> I, for example, want a New, Better language, and I don't care if
JP> all my scripts need rewriting. (I predict that that will happen
JP> anyway.) My old stuff will continue to work with perl5.
i agree. think about those scripts written under perl4 and are still
running with perl4 code. mirror.pl is one well know program that is like
that. if they want the new perl6 either run the perl5 through larry's
translator or rewrite in 6. i have a new client who also has a major
program written in perl4. we are starting a complete rewrite into 5. the
fact that it runs is not enough. we need the better data structures and
objects that 5 gives us. so many people will want to d a complete
rewrite to take full advantage of perl6. i would want the async i/o
(assuming it gets in :), many of the cleaner object stuf, etc. i may not
care about higher order functions and iterators and such but having them
will make for easier to write programs in the fields that want those
features.
perl6 should be the descendent of perl5, but not its clone. some genetic
drift is expected and wanted. and as always larry is the father but we
will steal genes from many mothers. :-)
uri
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